Word: sporting
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...hard for an American to understand just how much sports means to these people. I mean, we're pretty sports-crazed, but nothing like this. "A land were sport is sacred," Henry Lawson called it. (They like to call Lawson "Australia's Mark Twain," but he's no Mark Twain. Actually, he's pretty sentimental and pedestrian.) Anyway, Lawson got that one right, about sports. Since colonial days, when diggers on the goldfields made sure they always had time at the end of the day for a football match or a bare-knuckle fight, Australia has cherished games...
...During an Olympics an American star is bunking with a principal rival from another country. You could say HSI has taken Olympic ideals of brotherhood to new heights. Or you might say it's a pretty strange situation. Whichever, I'll tell you, it's indicative of where Olympic sport is today. The U.S. track and field team may pose as a unit on NBC, but down here it was comprised of a core at the Village with several of these brilliant satellites in orbit. Team Johnson, with Michael and his golden shoes, was headquartered at a hotel, Team Marion...
...traditionally profited handsomely from. Forrester Research last week unveiled a study predicting that within five years the music industry will lose $ 3.1 billion to piracy and the newfound independence of musicians. The music labels tried for a while to convince themselves that online piracy was a young person's sport, something that would be outgrown, like binge drinking and graffiti writing. But the truth is not so reassuring. A Pew Internet & American Life Project study found that more than half the downloaders are over 30. They're not just copping...
Sometimes you judge a sport not by what happens on court but by what happens in the stands. For in the U.S.vs. Australia women's gold-medal basketball match, the on-court action was scrappy, sloppy and churlish. But what was happening among these fans of basketball was nothing but pure exhilaration...
...When the American women whooped in elation after the buzzer signaled a 76-54 rout, the Aussies clapped respectfully - and the gesture seemed more natural than forced. "You have to understand, we only have 18 million people," explained a Sydney Morning Herald journalist. "To really enjoy sport, we're happy to cheer on other countries...